Last spring I spent many days observing art classes at our neighbor school, Ravenswood Elementary. Catherine “Ms. Kitty” Conde has been a Visual Arts instructor for over 20 years and contributed to Studio Thinking, by Lois Hetland, my main inspiration for changing Courtenay Language Arts Visual Arts program to choice based art. She encouraged me to try this project in my own classroom.
Here second grade students were asked to transform a cylinder. Before students could begin constructing, they used an "envision sheet" to plan their project. This project was wildly successful, my second graders talked about this project for the rest of the school year! I knew I was ready to implement choice based art in the coming school year.
Here second grade students were asked to transform a cylinder. Before students could begin constructing, they used an "envision sheet" to plan their project. This project was wildly successful, my second graders talked about this project for the rest of the school year! I knew I was ready to implement choice based art in the coming school year.